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Your skin tone/coloring: Light neutral, green eyes, dark hair with some silver
Best foundation for perfected skin? Estee Lauder Double Wear, but I’m also starting to love Lancome Teint Idole Ultra Wear.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? I don’t always use highlighter, but when I do, Wet n Wild Megaglo in Precious Petals is my current favorite, followed by Laura Mercier Baked Highlighter 01 and Smashbox Petal Metal Highlighter in Gilded Rose.
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? This week I’m loving MAC Velvet Teddy, Other current favorites include MAC Modesty, NARS Audacious Lipstick in Barbara, and Chanel Rouge Coco Lipstick in Mademoiselle. I have so many MLBB shades, but those are the ones I love the most right now.
Velvet Teddy is one of the absolute best nudes around IMO. I was so sad MAC did the Puma collab with Creme D Nude rather than Velvet Teddy for their beige!
I stopped using Velvet Teddy for a long time because I tend to get too excited about new lipsticks and I forget about the older ones. But I recently decided to wear it for the first time in ages and once again realize how perfect it is.
One of my all-time favorite MLBB shades was discontinued several years ago and I’m still mourning over it: Laura Mercier’s Discretion.
I’m glad you mentioned Discretion. I used up a whole tube in high school because I read that Angelina Jolie wore it. lol. It was a beautiful shade. It totally figures that we’re apparently nude lipstick twins when we have such similar coloring–I have light neutral skin and green eyes too.
I first bought Discretion after seeing it on Angelina Jolie, too! I went through several tubes of it and was horrified the day I found out I could no longer get it,
I trust you have discovered your eponymous semiprecious gemstone, Seraphinite. If not, check it out. Sounds as if it would be perfect with your coloring.
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair neutral
Best foundation for perfected skin? Even though I’ve mostly been avoiding foundation, when I do opt to wear it, I’m still loving Dior Diorskin Airflash foundation. I love that it’s light coverage that looks so natural on my skin. I haven’t found a BB cream or tinted moisturizer I like better than this.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Recently, I’ve been enjoying Laura Geller Baked Gelato Swirl in Charming Pink. Soft and subtle.
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Forever and always MAC Mehr.
Medium Warm (MAC NC30)
Define perfected? My version of perfected is the lightest amount of coverage possible to get me to beautiful skin. I don’t love the look of foundation. My three favorite foundations for achieving this are Guerlain’s Lingerie de Peau BB Cream, Giorgio Armani’s Luminous Silk, and Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra. All three of these can be built up to a level of coverage that I would no longer consider perfected or beautiful, but I use just the smallest amount and sheer them out with a makeup sponge.
My favorite cheek highlighter, hands down, is the new Dior Backstage cheek palettes. But I wouldn’t put these all over my skin. If I want glowing skin I mix Kevyn Aucoins Celestial Liquid Highlighter in Candlelight in with my foundation and set my makeup with one of the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powders.
My lips but better: I would turn over all the nude lipsticks I own if Bobbi Brown would bring back her lip crayon in Naked Pink.
Your skin tone/coloring: light, neutral
Best foundation for perfected skin? Fenty for matte, Armani Luminous Silk for dewy. With Hourglass primer for an almost too perfect, less natural effect.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Becca Pearl liquid for a natural finish, MAC Show Gold for instagram glow
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? NARS Dolce Vita pencil
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair neutral-cool
Best foundation for perfected skin? High coverage: marc jacobs remarcable; medium coverage: marc jacobs shameless (I feel like I’m the only person in the world who likes this lol)
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Charlotte tilbury filmstar highlighter, becca beach parisian lights, becca vanilla quartz
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? tarte park avenue princess which was DISCONTINUED but I also like mac blankety and sephora oui but neither are my perfect mlbb shade
Skin tone/coloring: Light medium neutral, blue eyes, chocolate brown hair
Best foundation for perfected skin: Last winter KGD Maifanshi Moisture Makeup. This time of year, IT Cosmetics CC cream or Mirenesse Collagen Cushion Compact Airbrush Liquid Powder
Best highlighter for glowing skin: I have not found one that I love. It is my next project.
Best MLBB lip color: I have not found one that I love and I don’t have the patience to look for one.
Your skin tone/coloring: fair, cool
Best foundation for perfected skin? IT CC cream or Clarins Skin Illusion
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Becca Pearl or Dior Glowing Gardens Glowing Pink (LE)
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? MAC Craving….it’s been my best MLBB shade for years and years. Capricious is a close second but doesn’t last on me nearly as well.
Your skin tone/coloring: Dark neutral
Best foundation for perfected skin? Estée Lauder Double Wear Foundation
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Palette (bubbly)
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Mac Whirl with the Mac lipliner Chestnut
Your skin tone/coloring: Very fair with neutral undertones; magenta/red hair; hazel/green eyes.
Best foundation for perfected skin? Lancome Teint Idole 24H Long Wear Foundation
Best highlighter for glowing skin? MUG Celestial, Notoriously Morbid Osteomancy, theBalm Mary Lou-Manizer
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? UD Vice Lipstick in Sheer Rapture. (I have very pale lips, almost the same as my skin color, and mauve on the edges.)
Skintone / coloring : light, MAC NC 15 – 20, med brown hair and eyes
Favorite foundation for perfected skin: I really have enjoyed MAC Studio Fix Fluid, MAC Nourishing Waterproof Foundation & their water weight foundation
Best highlighter for glowing skin: Becca Moonstone or MAC Lightscapade
MLB shade: MAC Spirit or Hug Me. Lipstick Queen Jean Queen
Oops, I left MAC Hug Me off my list! I’m a big fan of the MAC Lustre finish, and Hug Me is one of my favorites.It’s almost like a lip balm because the shade is so similar to my natural lip color.
I’ve thought about getting Spirit many times, but I have four or five of the dupes, so maybe someday in the future…
Back 2 MAC if you get and get it free. I bought it and I literally was like where have you been all my life. Btw I love the lustre formula too. It’s just so comfy on the lips and I don’t mind reapplying 🙂
Coloring light skin with some redness, dark green eyes and dark brown hair
Latest foundation that I am liking very much is the Dior Backstage face and body. My 19 year old daughter told me it makes me look 10 years younger! They had better never discontinue it!
Highlighter, I like the Decorte dip and glow, the LM baked highlight and I just got the Dior backstage glow highlighter palette which has potential.
My lips but better( aka all my lipsticks ) Burberry English rose in all formulations, Nars dolce vita ,Giorgio Armani in skinny red tube shade 503.
Dior Backstage has been at the top of my wishlist since it came out and I am hoping to finally purchase it in August, if my color is still in stock. I want to get the Backstage Airflash Radiance Mist to go with it.
Your skin tone/coloring: Light medium, yellow undertones.
Best foundation for perfected skin? Guerlain Parure Gold – or for a budget option, Designer Brands Luminous Glow Hydrating foundation.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? ALL OF THEM. I really like the BH Cosmetics Spotlight, Sigma Chroma Glow and PUR Quick Pro palettes.
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? I cannot go past Colourpop Lumiere or Cami lippie stix. They go with everything, look fantastic on just about everyone and last really well once applied.
I forgot ColourPop Lumiere (lippie stix version) with my post. It works with everything. Not a true MLBB for my lip colour, but definitely natural and close enough.
Your skin tone/coloring: Light Neutral with beige and slight olive undertones
Best foundation for perfected skin? EL SIP DW is fantastic, but I prefer less perfection. Sunday Riley The Influencer with a touch of Fenty Pro Filt’r for colour finessing.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Laura Gellar baked gelato in Ballerina. Love this formula: cream/powder hybrid.
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? MLBB shades for me are griege. I have a slight ashy purple undertone to my lip colour. Of the myriad of griege lipsticks in my stash, the closest to my real lip colour is Bite Star Anise. PMG Madam Griege, Bite Cancer, PMG Modern Woman, Bite Gelato, Bite Cava in its multiple iterations are all fantastic. I can also do slightly darker/plummier or rosy. Bite Sake, MUFE matte 105, ColourPop Dopey, ColourPop Contempo
Your skin tone/coloring: fair warm ~NC 10; blue eyes; brown hair with copper highlights
Best foundation for perfected skin? Franken-foundation: mixture of Smashbox Camera Ready BB Water SPF 30 in fair/light and Guerlain Lingerie de Peau in N01 (old formula; this shade not available in the new formula; I shall be so sad when I run out)
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Becca Backlight Priming Filter along my cheekbones; so subtle but does really make a difference on me.
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Urban Decay Vice Lovelight
Skin tone: Very fair with cool undertones.
Best foundation for perfected skin: Chosungah 22 Luminous Light Blend in shade 01 Porcelain. I am also loving Chanel Perfection Lumiere Velvet in 10 Beige for the lightest shade or 12 Beige Rose for the best undertone match and I add whitening drops.
Best highlighter: Mary Lou Manizer, Becca Pearl and Dior Diorskin in 02.
Best MLBB: I haven’t really found one that is really a MLBB. I have several shades that I love and that look fairly neutral on me, Bobbi Brown Downtown Plum, CT Bond Girl and Colourpop Lumiere Lippie Stix.
Your skin tone/colouring: Porcelain, with pink undertones
Best foundation for perfected skin? I love the Clarins Everlasting foundation in linen, a very close finish would be my DB Velvet Matte foundation in Porcelain Ivory.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? I don’t use highlighter
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? I don’t have such a shade as I always prefer bolder colours. My current favourites are Milani’s Tuscan Toast and MAC Fresh Moroccan.
Your skin tone/coloring: Medium w/ olive undertones, MAC NC37, Lancome Teint Idole Foundation N360, deep brunette, blue-green eyes w/ gold flecks.
Best foundation for perfected skin? Lancome Teint Idole 24HR Foundation!
Best highlighter for glowing skin? ABH Amrezy ( gorgeous cooler gold) , Laura Mercier Matte Radiance Highlight 01 (for subtle effects), MAC Whisper Of Gilt (intense warm gold), MAC x Taraji P. Henson Highlight The Truth (peachy-coppery glow).
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? MAC Mehr, PMG She’s Heaven Luxetrance lipstick or UD Liar in the Revolution formula. And if I’m want a MLBS(himmery) Guerlain Air Kiss.
Your skin tone/coloring: fair/cool skin (foundation matches: L’Oreal True Match C3 Creamy Natural, Urban Decay All Nighter 2.5, NARS Natural Radiant Longwear 2.0 Mont Blanc, Kevyn Aucoin The Etherealist Skin Illuminating Foundation Light EF 02), gray eyes, brown hair with red highlights and scattered blonde and blue strands
Best foundation for perfected skin? I get my best results with a combination of L’Oreal True Match Creamy Natural in the Lumi Cushion formula and UD All Nighter 2.5.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? So far either the Becca Light Chaser highlighters or NARS Satellite of Love highlighting blush. UD sent me samples of all 5 shades of Naked Skin Illuminating Fluid when I bought the Born to Run palette, so I’m probably going to start trying them soon.
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Probably Sephora Lipstories Labyrinth City.
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair skin with neutral undertones and freckles, green/blue/gray eyes and warm medium brown hair
Best foundation for perfected skin? Still looking. But right now I’m really enjoying the mix of Lancome Skin Feels Good Nourishing Foundation with my Missha BB cream.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Revlon Color Charge highlighter or Pixi Gossimer Glow Duos.
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Also still looking! I’ve never been able to find my perfect nude. But I do enjoy slightly deeper nudes because my lips aren’t very pigmented. I’ve been enjoying the Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb lately though, for a little juicy tint!
Skin tone/coloring: Light to medium, neutral slightly yellow.
Best foundation for perfected skin? Nothing really. My dark spots appear, 15 minutes after foundation application
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Revlon Photoready Pink light, MAC Vanilla and Naked pigment, NARS Albatros, Laura Mercier Matte Radiance Baked Powder Highlight , Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector, under foundation Laura Mercier Radiance primer
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? NARS Dolce Vita lip pencil
Your skin tone/coloring: NW20
Best foundation for perfected skin? Estee Lauder Double Wear in Fresco
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Essence Nude
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Mac Modesty